Scranton/Lackawanna County Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness

摘要

The Lackawanna County Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homeless is the first effort of this kind for Scranton/Lackawanna County. It is an ambitious plan but one with a clear focus ending chronic homelessness in our community in the next ten years. This is a plan that is guided by the efforts of The National Alliance to End Homeless and its tenyear plan as well as HUD's directives to have a plan in place in every community across the nation. Following the suggested components necessary to ending chronic homelessness this plan addresses planning for outcomes, closing the front door to homelessness through prevention, opening the back door from homelessness by housing people and challenges the gaps in the infrastructure (housing, income and services) that leads to homelessness and prevents others from getting housing. The Lackawanna County Housing Coalition/Continuum of Care Committee thanks all the community members involved in the planning process. Through your ongoing efforts we will end chronic homelessness in our community in ten years.